Objectives
In pursuit of scientific and technological excellence, GARUDA PoC has also brought together the critical mass of well-established researchers. PoC and Foundation phase has accomplished its target:

GARUDA is a collaboration of science researchers and experimenters on a nation wide grid of computational nodes, mass storage and scientific instruments that aims to provide the technological advances...

The following key deliverables have been identified as important to achieving the GARUDA objectives: Grid tools and services to provide an integrated infrastructure to applications and higher-level layers A Pan-Indian communication fabric to provide seamless and high-speed access to resources Aggregation of resources including compute clusters, storage and scientific instruments Creation of a consortium to collaborate on grid computing and contribute towards the aggregation of resources Grid enablement and deployment of select applications of national importance requiring aggregation of distributed resources...

The major components of GARUDA include the computing resources, high-speed communication fabric, middleware and security mechanisms, tools to support program development, collaborative environments, data management and grid monitoring and management. Access portals and specialized problem solving environments provide a seamless user interface to the Grid...